PS_BA004 Introduction to Psychology

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Mgr. Jiří Čeněk, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Michal Diviš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tatiana Malatincová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Zdenka Stránská, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: PhDr. Irena Komendová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 15:50–17:25 zruseno D22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course the student should: Know the position of psychology among other fields of social sciences; gain the general knowledge of basic, applied and special psychological disciplines; understand what abilities are necessary to be a good psychologist; know where the psychological education comes in use
Syllabus
  • 1) Science and scietific knowledge. Structure of social sciences. Psychology among sciences. Different disciplines of psychology - general, specific and applied psychology disciplines. Distinguishing Psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy. Study of psychology at Faculty of Arts MU.
  • 2) Historiography of psychological ideas. Psychology and soul. Philosophy and psychology. Body - mind question. Central systems of modern psychology. Substantial psychological categories. Concepts and terms.
  • 3) Research method. Common sense and psychology. Universality of theory and singularity of individual. Data and facts. Problem, hypothesis, theory. Levels of analysis.
  • 4) Human behavior. Basic mental processes: cognition, motivation, emotion.
  • 5) Learning as a process of adaptation. Human and subhuman learning.
  • 6) Personality. Theories of personality. Traits and states. Self and self-concept. Nativism and eviromentalism.
  • 7) Individual in society. Social perception and communication. Attitudes. Language. The relation between language and mind. Experience of individuals and language.
  • 8) Psychopathology. Norms and normality. Three kinds of understanding of the normality. Selected psychical disorders.
  • 9) Phylogeny, anthropogeny and ontogeny. Levels of development.
  • 10) Psychology in practice. Application of the psychology in problem solving.
Literature
  • HELUS, Zdeněk. Úvod do psychologie. 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3037-0. info
Teaching methods
Two hours per week, lectures and home study.
Assessment methods
The course is successfully passed by elaboration of team seminary work, feedback on work of other team and by sending the work for a review to academic journal Psychologon.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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